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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 24, 1984
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We heard your message on the Philadelphia era's commission at
services this past week and were renewed with excitement for the
job we have a part of in this Work.
We look forward with
anticipation to having a part in the time of restoration of God's
ways upon this suffering world. Thank you for your service and
your prayers that help open our minds to this way.
J.H. (Epsom, NH)
Thank you for your latest tape concerning the foundation of a new
world. I have determined to become a much stronger part of the
"Temple" to which Christ will come.
A.M. (Mount Clare, WV)
We heard your latest tape at Bible study and were really moved by
the new truth that you made available. After the study was over,
a buzz of animated chatter filled the room. We count ourselves
the most blessed and most fortunate of all peoples who have ever
lived.
To be alive during the close of this age and the transi
tion into the World Tomorrow and to know what is happening is
wonderful! We do pray daily for your health, comfort and safety.
We also ask God to give you more of this stimulating new truth.
L.V. (Sherwood, OR)
Last Sabbath, here at church, we had one of your latest sermon
tapes, expounding the book of Galatians. It was very informa
tive, educational and full of spiritual meat. We would like to
thank you, Mr. Armstrong, for all the truths you have reestab
lished in the Church of God. Yes, indeed, it is very easy to take
all these truths of God for granted. There is no other church on
the face of this earth that has these truths. We thank you again,
Mr. Armstrong.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
Mr. & Mrs. G.K. (Lancaster, CA)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
THE SLUGGISH ECONOMIES OF EUROPE--BOTH EAST
AND WEST--AND WHY THEY NEED EACH OTHER
The selection of Konstantin Chernenko as the new leader of the Soviet Union
represents, as we discussed last time, a sort of "holding pattern" on the
part of the Soviet hierarchy. At home, this means that the Soviet economy,
along with that of its East Bloc neighbors, will continue to limp along,
making little, if any, progress at all. The Soviets are falling further
behind the U.S. and Japanese economies, which together are streaking into
the high-tech future.
(In fact, a new word has been coined to express
American and Japanese technological collaboration--"Jamerica.") Here are
excerpts from an article in the February 27, 1984 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
about the U.S.S.R. 's stalled economy.
Konstantin Chernenko is confronted by the same dilemma that
bedeviled Yuri Andropov and other leaders of the world's first
self-styled workers' state•••• The work force, nearly 67 years
after the Russian Revolution, is inefficient and unmotivated.
The work ethic is virtually nonexistent, and absenteeism is a
na'tionaTdisease:-:-..
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